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* In ''Anime/NetojuuNoSusume'', Lily and Hayashi wear matching bracelets after Hayashi defeats his first boss with Lily's guidance.

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}, [[spoiler: Prunella and Marina get a set of friendship bracelets, each with half of a golden heart pendant which says "Best Friends." The girls fight and split the pendant, then make up and put it back together.]]



In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}, [[spoiler: Prunella and Marina get a set of friendship bracelets, each with half of a golden heart pendant which says "Best Friends." The girls fight and split the pendant, then make up and put it back together.]]
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* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', Nanoha and Fate exchange their hair ribbons at the end of the first season.

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* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', Nanoha and Fate exchange their hair ribbons at the end of [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha the first season.season]]. They both continue to wear them throughout [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs the second season]] but remove them following the TimeSkip.
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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': ComicBook/JimmyOlsen's signal watch, at least at one point, was a symbol of the friendship between him and Superman, who had given it to him [[JustWhistle so Jimmy would have a way to contact him if he got in trouble]].
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* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The Crest of Friendship resembles the ASL sign for friend, and takes the form of an symmetrical emblem with a split center.

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* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The Crest of Friendship resembles the ASL sign for friend, and takes the form an interlocking pair of an friendship trinkets. It's a symmetrical emblem with a split center.
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* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The Crest of Friendship resembles the ASL sign for friend, and takes the form of an amulet with a split center.

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''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The Crest of Friendship resembles the ASL sign for friend, and takes the form of an amulet with a split center.

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In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}, [[spoiler: Prunella and Marina get a set of friendship bracelets, each with half of a golden heart pendant which says "Best Friends." The girls fight and split the pendant, then make up and put it back together.]]
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''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The Crest of Friendship resembles the ASL sign for friend, and takes the form of an amulet with a split center.
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* On ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Duel Monsters cards often fill this role.
** Solomon Muto's most treasured card, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, was a gift from his friend Arthur Hawkins. At least, until Seto Kaiba wins the card in a duel and tears it in half.
** Some time later, Yugi Muto (Solomon's grandson) duels Rebecca Hawkins (Arthur's granddaughter). Afterwards, Yugi gives Rebecca the Ties of Friendship card.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': In your last day in town, any character whose LevelUpAtIntimacyFive "Confidant" side-quest you have maxed out will give you an item to remember them by. These items also automatically unlock late-game bonuses from their side-quest if you start a NewGamePlus.
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* The friendship bracelets with the girls' names on ''Series/{{Pretty Little Liars}}'' are a major plot point throughout and constantly used to call attention to the tightly knit bonds they used to have to each other.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', it's implied that the Heart Locket(Neutral[=/=]True Pacifist)/The Locket(Genocide) was/were[[note]]It's unclear whether they're two different lockets or the same locket seen two different ways[[/note]] this for [[spoiler: Asriel and Chara. This is supported by Chara saying "Right where it belongs" when you equip The Locket in a Genocide run, Asriel appearing to be wearing one in his initial boss form, and the non-Genocide Check text saying it says "Best Friends Forever".]]
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* In the last ''Literature/CutAndRun'' book, Ty knows he's screwed up when Nick runs out and leaves behind the knife Ty gave him for his birthday. Embedded in the wall.
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' Joey buys himself a gaudy bracelet, then gets an identical one for Chandler so they can be "bracelt buddies." Chandler hates his.

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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' Joey buys himself a gaudy bracelet, then gets an identical one for Chandler so they can be "bracelt "bracelet buddies." Chandler hates his.
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* In the TamoraPierce’s ''Literature/CircleOfMagic’’ books, the characters have a string circle containing their united magic which represents their friendship.

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* In the TamoraPierce’s Creator/TamoraPierce’s ''Literature/CircleOfMagic’’ books, the characters have a string circle containing their united magic which represents their friendship.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Buddies" uses a friendship necklace as something of a RunningGag, with Wander offering it to Hater and Hater eventually accepting it [[spoiler:in a dream sequence]]. The episode ends with [[spoiler:a heartbroken Commander Peepers revealing [[VillainousFriendship his own half of the necklace HE shares with Hater]].]]

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* The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Buddies" uses a friendship broken heart necklace as something of a RunningGag, with Wander offering it to Hater and Hater eventually accepting it [[spoiler:in a dream sequence]]. The episode ends with [[spoiler:a heartbroken Commander Peepers revealing [[VillainousFriendship his own half of the necklace HE same necklace, which he apparently shares with Hater]].]]
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* The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Buddies" uses a friendship necklace as something of a RunningGag, with Wander offering it to Hater and Hater eventually accepting it [[spoiler:in a dream sequence]]. The episode ends with [[spoiler:a heartbroken Commander Peepers revealing [[VillainousFriendship his own half of the necklace HE shares with Hater]].]]
--> '''[[spoiler: Peepers:]]''' ''[[spoiler: But I thought WE were buds!!!]]''
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* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' has [[IllGirl Juniper Woods]], [[InsufferableGenius Hugh O'Conner]] and [[HotBlooded Robin Newman]] all have one, a red clay band of a pair of clasping hands. Hugh wears his around his neck, Juniper her wrist, and Robin on her bicep. [[spoiler: The fact that Hugh wears his on his neck is how Athena picks him out in a picture.]] The three friends say during the case that their friendship is on the rocks, [[spoiler: but when Juniper and Robin show Hugh they are still wearing theirs despite their squabbles, he breaks down and cries.]]

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* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' has [[IllGirl Juniper Woods]], [[InsufferableGenius Hugh O'Conner]] and [[HotBlooded Robin Newman]] all have one, a red clay band of a pair of clasping hands. Hugh wears his around his neck, Juniper her wrist, and Robin on her bicep. [[spoiler: The fact that Hugh wears his on his neck is how Athena picks him out in a picture.]] The three friends say during the case that their friendship is on the rocks, [[spoiler: but when Juniper and Robin show Hugh they are still wearing theirs despite their squabbles, he breaks down and cries. All three of them also use their bands as security blankets, instinctively reaching for them when they're scared.]]
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A Friendship Trinket is an object that is kept by one or two characters to symbolise their friendship or trust towards another character. The item is often something the friends had since they were children such as a hair ornaments, necklaces or something that has been split in half for them to share. It can also be given as a token of gratitude after one character saves or helps another.

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A Friendship Trinket is an object that is kept by one or two characters to symbolise their friendship or trust towards another character. The item is often something the friends had since they were children such as a hair ornaments, necklaces or something that has been split in half for them to share. It can also be given as a token of gratitude after one character saves or helps another.
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* In [[Film/HomeAlone Home Alone 2, Kevin gives the Pigeon Lady (whom he had befriended earlier on in the movie, and even saved him from Marv & Harry's clutches) the other half of a Turtle Dove Ornament, which is rumored that if one person gives a very special person the other half of a Turtle Dove, the 2 who have the turtle dove halves will always be friends.

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* In [[Film/HomeAlone Home Alone 2, 2]], Kevin gives the Pigeon Lady (whom he had befriended earlier on in the movie, and even saved him from Marv & Harry's clutches) the other half of a another Turtle Dove Ornament, which Ornament. Said act is rumored that if one person gives a very special person the other half of a another Turtle Dove, the 2 who have the turtle dove halves ornaments will always be friends.
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* In [[Film/HomeAlone Home Alone 2, Kevin gives the Pigeon Lady (whom he had befriended earlier on in the movie, and even saved him from Marv & Harry's clutches) the other half of a Turtle Dove Ornament, which is rumored that if one person gives a very special person the other half of a Turtle Dove, the 2 who have the turtle dove halves will always be friends.
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* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' has [[IllGirl Juniper Woods]], [[InsufferableGenius Hugh O'Conner]] and [[HotBlooded Robin Newman]] all have one, a red clay band of a pair of clasping hands. Hugh wears his around his neck, Juniper her wrist, and Robin on her bicep. [[spoiler: The fact that Hugh wears his on his neck is how Athena picks him out in a picture.]] The three friends say during the case that their friendship is on the rocks, [[spoiler: but when Juniper and Robin show Hugh they are still wearing theirs despite their squabbles, he breaks down and cries.]]
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* ''Anime/Pokemon'': Ash and Gary keep the halves of a Pokeball they broke when they were younger as a sign of their friendship and rivalry. We of course never even knew it existed and they both carried it around all the time until the end of season 5 when they finally had their first full on battle.

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* ''Anime/Pokemon'': ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Ash and Gary keep the halves of a Pokeball they broke when they were younger as a sign of their friendship and rivalry. We of course never even knew it existed and they both carried it around all the time until the end of season 5 when they finally had their first full on battle.
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* ''Anime/Pokemon'': Ash and Gary keep the halves of a Pokeball they broke when they were younger as a sign of their friendship and rivalry. We of course never even knew it existed and they both carried it around all the time until the end of season 5 when they finally had their first full on battle.


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* StarWars: Anakin gives Padme a necklace in Episode I when they first meet. It decorates her hearse during her funeral at the end of Episode III.
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->'''Lisa:''' Wow, my first real [[LastSecondWordSwap friend...ship bracelet]]!

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A Friendship Trinket is an object that is kept by one or two characters to symbolise their friendship or trust towards another character. The item is often something the friends had since they were children such as a hair ornaments, necklaces or something that has been split in half for them to share. It can also be given as a token of gratitude after one character saves or helps another.

If this precious keepsake is lost, stolen, or damaged, expect the owner to try to frantically recover or fix it, that their relationship with their friend will be severed if they don't.
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* The matching seashell halves in ''Manga/KannazukiNoMiko'' start off as a Friendship Trinket but get upgraded to Love Trinket for Himeko and Chikane.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', Nanoha and Fate exchange their hair ribbons at the end of the first season.
* In the end of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', right before [[spoiler: she became [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence the personification of hope]]]], Madoka gave her hair ribbons to Homura.
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* A museum in the Outer Banks of North Carolina has a film adaptation of the story of [[LostColony Roanoke Colony]], which features a trio of Indian {{Historical Domain Character}}s. One of them wears a sand dollar as a necklace, and he breaks it into thirds to symbolize their friendship.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine Thomas and The Magic Railroad]]'', Lily gives her Burnett a friendship bracelet to remind them of their friendship. Later in the film, Lily puts the gold dust Junior gives to her on her bluebird toy, also to remind her of her friendship with Burnett.
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* In the TamoraPierce’s ''Literature/CircleOfMagic’’ books, the characters have a string circle containing their united magic which represents their friendship.
*In ''Literature/TheIdiot'', Myshkin and Rogozhin have a heart-to-heart conversation and promise that--no matter how their rivalry over Nastasya's affection ends--[[FriendshipMoment they'll remain friends]]. Both men are wearing cross necklaces, and they trade crosses as a sign of their friendship.
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* In the backstory of ''{{Series/Bones}}'' Cam had a live-in relationship with a man and grew to love his young daughter. When she left him, she told the girl that she would always love her and gave her half of a hugging salt-and-pepper shaker set, saying that whenever the girl looked at it, she should know that Cam was looking at it too. Many years later the man is the VictimOfTheWeek and Cam takes his now-teenage daughter in and adopts her.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' Joey buys himself a gaudy bracelet, then gets an identical one for Chandler so they can be "bracelt buddies." Chandler hates his.
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* Mike Patterson and Josef Weeder from Lynn Johnson's ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' strip have a Naked Ned window clinger, a constant during their college years. Ned became a point of contention when Mike's daughter flushed Ned.

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* Curly Brace from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' gives the protagonist an iron bond after restoring her memories as a sign of friendship.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Kairi makes a star-shaped charm out of Thalassa shells due to a legend that sailors who carry them will have a safe voyage. She gives it to Sora near the end of the game, and he carries it with him until they reunite at the end of ''Kingdom Hearts II'', the charm acting as the Keychain for the Oathkeeper Keyblade that symbolizes their bond. TheStinger for ''Birth by Sleep'' has her hand it back to him when he heads out on another adventure. The image of the Paopu Fruit acts as one as well, as its legend says that two people who share one are destined to forever have their lives entwined, and Kairi's charm is star-shaped like the fruit.
** The symbolism is revisited in ''Birth By Sleep'', when Aqua makes Wayfinders for herself, Terra and Ven, based on the legend of the Paopu Fruit and coincidentally looking like Kairi's charm, with the belief that as long as the three of them carry them, their bonds will never be broken.
* In both ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', you get one of this for every [[LevelUpAtIntimacyFive Social Link]] you complete. They allow you to fuse the ultimate Persona of the Arcana.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', Jade acquires two half-yin-yang necklaces and intends to give one to her new friend Seymour. When Seymour turns out to really be the Sky Demon instead of a child and kidnaps Uncle, Jade finds out she can combine her half with the Tiger Talisman (which contains the power of spiritual balance) to track the demon and Uncle. She later regains the necklace half and [[IntergenerationalFriendship gives it to Tohru instead]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode ''Summer of 4 Ft. 2'', Lisa receives a friendship bracelet from her summer-vacation friend Erin.
->'''Lisa:''' Wow, my first real [[LastSecondWordSwap friend...ship bracelet]]!
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In the episode "Secret Box", Spongebob and Patrick have a ring which, when pressed, shows a figure of both friends dancing and singing "It's the best friends forever, best friends forever ring!".
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